The James Charles Tati westbrook drama is still the biggest trending topic on youtube
right now.
Even after almost 5 days.
But there is definitely a lot more to talk about because this situation is still unfolding,
more information is coming out, and honestly, the situation got a whole lot worse.
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If you havent seen our previous coverage on the James Charles Tati Westbrook situation,
theres a video that’s currently flashing on your screen that might help you get up
to speed.
I’m not going to spend too much time reviewing what’s going on because if you’re not
part of the beauty community on youtube, its not going to make a whole lot of sense.
But heres a tiny bit of a refresher.
tati westbrook is a very, very respected member of the beauty community.
She rarely involves herself in drama, and she is a very classy, intelligent woman.
She was james charles’ mentor, she took him under her wing and really helped him on
his come up in many ways, and also consistently.
She got him brand deals, constantly promoted him in her videos and social media posts.
She was very much a mother figure to james Charles.
That’s why it hurt her so much when James decided to promote a competing product.
It felt like a stab in the back.
After everything she had done, after all the times she promoted him, this was his chance
to help her and he fell short.
That’s when she posted her video, Bye sister, that effectlvely cancelled james Charles.
But lets not forget that tati is also 37 years old, and James is 19.
He doesn’t have the decades of experience that she has.
He also wasn’t under contract that would have made his promotion of another product
a conflict of interest.
It’s a capitalist world that we live in, brand deals come and go for influencers, they
aren’t a big deal, at least, not for many.
So why didn’t james Charles help tati?
James told tati that he didn’t want to promote her product because his audience is young,
and he didn’t feel right about promoting a beauty vitamin to them.
Then he went and promoted a rival brand, sugar bear hair, hypocritically because he had said
in the past that he isn’t a fan of the company.
But have you ever maybe thought that james just used the ‘young audience’ excuse
as an, EXCUSE?
Maybe there’s another reason why he didn’t want to promote tati’s vitamins, but couldn’t
tell tati the real reason.
I’m not sure what that reason is, who knows really, only james knows why he promoted a
viral product.
James said that he wasn’t paid for the sugar bear hair post, and he only agreed to do it
after they helped him with security at Coachella.
It wasn’t something that was pre planned.
Or so he says.
A new piece of information challenges that claim made by james Charles.
Nikita Dragun, another beauty youtuber, came to james’ defense and posted screenshots
of a text conversation between her and james that allegedly proved that james didn’t
preplan the deal.
She tweeted.
Heard a situation needed some clarification.
My friend was in an emergency and texted me in the moment.
Unfortunately, since dragun beauty used all of our marketing budget on the fantasy, I
connected him with sugar bear.
Nothing shady.
These are the texts she shared, they are dated april 20th, and they also show the interaction
with sugar bear hair.
But according to the youtube channel Tea Spill, these texts don’t line up with james side
of the story.
The weekend of Coachella james attended was on april 12th through the 14th.
This means that those texts were sent after the weekend Charles supposedly met sugar bear
hair for the first time.
A friend of james Charles reached out with the following statement to clear things up.
Even though james did meet sugar bear reps the first weekend of Coachella, no business
happened until the second weekend.
It saoid.
He met some of the team weekend 1 with nikita and was already there with an artist past.
Then for weekend too, he messaged nikita asking for security and artist passes.
He said he met them weekend 1 and they helped with security.
But The vitamin debackle is not the reason why james Charles is being cancelled.
Its because of his alleged predatory behaviour.
Jeffree starr, who is extremely respected in the beauty community, and one of the highest
paid youtubers and beauty guru son the platform.
His tweet definitely could have helped make that happen.
In a tweet Jeffree star said in response to James Charles’ brother..
There is a reason that Nathan banned James Charles from ever coming over to our home
again,” Jeffree said.
“There’s a reason why I haven’t seen him since @GlamLifeGuru’s birthday in February.
He is a danger to society.
Everything Tati said is 100% true.”
Oh okkurr jeffree, spill that tea.
I wanna see tea.
REAL TEA, not just a tweet.
Maybe this means jeffree star is going to be making a video on this situation.
But something, to me, just doesn’t add up.
This tweet by jeffree star was also deleted.
And so was a follow up tweet where jeffree wrote, Why is your brother a predator, Why
did you really move back to NYC, exactly.
Shut the eff up.
Again, its still early days, so maybe more information, and proof will come to light.
As a supporter of the me too movement, and as someone who is a victim of predatory behaviour,
I do believe survivors.
BUT I believe survivors who have proof and evidence backing up their claims.
The way the justice system currently works is, innocent until proven guilty.
That is why its so important to wait for proof and possibly even a trial before you come
to any conclusions about anyone.
Because so far, I havent seen much proof that proves james Charles is a predator.
Here’s what I mean by that.
The waiter that Tati spoke about in her video from her birthday party, the one that she
said was straight, who james was making inappropriate comments about to her family?
Yeah, that one.
His name is sam cook.
So he came out with a video of his own about his situation with james Charles.
The video is now deleted, likely because it turns out that he recorded a phone call between
he and james in the video without james’s consent which is illegal in Washington.
It is still on the internet.
But the biggest thing I took away from this video is that Sam cook was not straight as
tati said, which was one of the prime points of her video, that james Charles is a predator
that forces straight men to engage in sexual activity with him.
In this video, the waiter clearly says that he messaged james first because his sister
convinced her to DM him.
He also says that he was bi curious at the time.
Roll the clip.
Sam cook went to his hotel and made out with him for an hour.
Oh yeah and apparently james Charles is the worst kisser he’s ever kissed, and afterward
he decided he was probably not gay.
But the bad kissing could explain why he was turned off by james Charles and didn’t want
to do anything further.
Listen james is 19, I was a fantastic kisser when I was 19, but if you have very little
romantic experience, you’re not going to practice, so yeah, it doesn’t surprise me
that James Charles is a bad kisser.
It surprises me that tati westbrook used this waiter as the prime example for james’ predatory
behaviour, but we can clearly see from this video that james did not force him to do anything.
He wasn’t straight.
He was bicurious, and he messaged james first.
Furthermore, gage gomez, another dude that james supposedly forced his predatory behaviour
on, is also, not straight.
At least, he wasn’t when he and james talked for 5 months and then gage gomez spent the
weekend with him at Coachella.
He was also bi curious.
There’s plently of pictures and evidence of them online holding hands and kissing in
public that contradicts gage’s statements about him being straight and always telling
james that he was straight.
No one held a gun to Gage’s head at Coachella and told him to act the way he did.
I will also point out that there are people coming forward with completely fake claims
about james Charles.
Here’s a claim that was posted to twitter that tells the story of someone who knew james
Charles in high school and he sexually assaulted their friend.
This tweet was by the twitter account Lilac Grove, and they asked people to retweet and
share it.
But it turns out, the claim was fake.
They posted ‘screenshots’ of a private dm conversation where james supposedly admits
it.
The youtuber channel Imalexx, discovered that these screenshots are fake.
The font and the at symbol was misplaced.
Imalex then called this person out for their fake dms.
This twitter account then reposted the same fake dms, this time, looking more believable.
After they got backlash for the fake dm, they then admitted to the fact that it was created
with photoshop, and now their account is deleted.
Are you KIDDING ME!
I absolutely hate this kind of thing.
It makes it harder for people to believe survivors.
But it also encourages people to question everything.
You gotta remember that this entire thing started because of vitamins.
VITAMINS.
Sure maybe James Charles was not the best friend he could be, but he’s not YOUR friend.
You don’t know him personally.
Humans are not perfect.
We lie and some of us go behind our friends backs.
It doesn’t make us bad people, but it also doesn’t make us good people.
At this time, unless I see some hard proof about james Charles being a predator and not
just an insecure, sexually inexperienced gay guy who has a thing for straight boys, all
its really about is james Charles not being the best friend he could be, and tati deciding
that instead of talking to him about it.
To wrap up this video, I thought I would leave you with one final thought.
First mentioned by the youtube channel tipster, great channel for youtube news, definitely
check it out. is that Tati mentioned in her Bye Sister Video that james Charles wanted
to make a documentary exposing the beauty community and tati told him not to do it because
it would ruin his career.
After hours of talking, james decided not to make the documentary.
But you gotta wonder what james wanted to bring to light, and why tati was so against
it.
Tati westbrook might have helped make james charles’ career, but it definitely wasn’t
hers to take away and she did so without proof, with only hearsay, and with a grudge against
him.
I definitely burnt my tongue.
I will keep you updated on this story as more info comes to light.
Once again if you havent seen our previous video on this situation, please check out
our video, The problem with The James Charles and Tati Westbrook situation.
For now I’m going to respond to some of your comments from that video.
Chelsea b – theres still a massive amount of details not evben touched on in this video
that really should have bene because they explain why certain things were said.
I’m not a part of the beauty community, I don’t follow this stuff on social media.
I’m not going to add in every single tweet and offhand comment made because they are
not PROOF.
But I hope you appreciated this update.
Suraj Kent – I am just subscribed to you, and you are the only drama channel I subscribe
to because you are kinda open minded smart and funny.
Mouseinurhouse – this is by far the best video I have seen on the situation, great
job.
Ohhh thank you!